PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Blue-Collar Worker, Sexual Coercion, Feminist Theory
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Most cases, boys harass girls than the other way around and it is more common between peers. Teachers rarely intervene, even when they are aware of serious incidents of sexual harassment, school authorities often treat it is a harmless instance of boys will be boys . Harassment has damaging effects even on those who do not directly experience it by creating a school climate that is tolerate harassment. Women perceive more situations as harassing than men do and they are hasher in their judgments of the harasser. When students are targets, behaviors are more likely to be seen as harassment if they are performed by a professor than by another student. Hard to assess the frequency because of surveys showing that is varies from campuses, and specific type of unwanted conduct and the nature of the power relationship between the harasser and the target. Females are more likely than males to be sexually harassed.
